Montane Woodcreeper

Montane Woodcreeper

Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger

Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic

LCLeast ConcernNTVUENCR
Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare
at Cali

In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%

16 Verified sightings at Cali
1,442 In all 6 parks From 2019 to 2026
April Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Montane Woodcreeper

The montane woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger) is a perching bird species in the subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. The montane woodcreeper was formerly considered conspecific with the spot-crowned woodcreeper (L. affinis) but they were split in the early 2000s.

The montane woodcreeper has these nine subspecies: Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger sanctaemartae (Chapman, 1912) Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger sneiderni Meyer de Schauensee, 1945 Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger lacrymiger (Lafresnaye, 1849)

Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger lafresnayi (Cabanis & Heine, 1860) Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger aequatorialis (Ménégaux, 1912) Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger frigidus Meyer de Schauensee, 1951 Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger warscewiczi (Cabanis & Heine, 1860)

Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger carabayae Hellmayr, 1920 Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger bolivianus (Chapman, 1919) The montane woodcreeper is 19 to 19.5 cm (7.5 to 7.7 in) long; males weigh 31 to 35 g (1.1 to 1.2 oz) and females 29.5 to 33 g (1.0 to 1.2 oz). It is a smallish to medium-sized woodcreeper with a slim, slightly decurved bill... Wikipedia →

Sounds

Song0:09

Ecuador · 2021

© Manuel Sánchez-Nivicela · XC1163453 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Call0:05

Ecuador · 2024

© Sue Riffe · XC929456 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Dawn song0:40

Ecuador · 2020

© Juan Carlos Crespo · XC597859 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Los Nevados National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia
~20%
2 Farallones de Cali National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia
~10%
3 Podocarpus National Park 🇪🇨 Ecuador
<5%
4 Chingaza National Natural Park 🇨🇴 Colombia
<5%
5 Henri Pittier National Park 🇻🇪 Venezuela
<5%
6 Amboró National Park 🇧🇴 Bolivia
<5%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Cali 🇨🇴 Colombia
<5%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Montane Woodcreeper in Cali?

Rare

Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Montane Woodcreeper sighting in Cali on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 154th most-seen of the 226 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Montane Woodcreeper in Cali?

Any time of year

In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Montane Woodcreeper in Cali on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.

What time of day is best to see a Montane Woodcreeper?

Between 6 and 9 am

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Montane Woodcreeper sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Where else can you see a Montane Woodcreeper?

Only Cali, in our data

Cali is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Montane Woodcreeper sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.

Where does the Montane Woodcreeper sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Montane Woodcreeper is recorded against all the birds logged in Cali (16 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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